How are social networks used?
Understanding the uses of social networks in your projects

"Networks and communities are both the source and the form of social capital in organizations, the primary manifestation of a cooperative relationship between people".

(Larry Prusak).

A social network is a protean tool.

Public social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Viadeo, Pinterest (etc.) are useful for communicating, building a network, sharing, collaborating, financing projects, capturing intelligence, and so on.

In an organization, using a corporate social network (CSN) enables you to bring together the different skills needed to achieve a common goal (whether one-off or not). A CSN brings together a network of individuals identified according to their skills, locations and interests. Depending on the additional functionalities of these tools, collaborators can co-create...